INSIGHT-Russian programmers play ‘cat and mouse’ game to outsmart censors

* Russian programmers coordinate in chats, at hackathons to outfox censors * Moscow has banned foreign social media sites, opposition media outlets * Programmers build on anti-censorship tools developed in China, US * Restrictions have been ramped up since invasion of Ukraine By Lucy Papachristou LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – When Antony Rudkovsky was about 15, he began to teach himself how to build virtual private networks (VPNs) to access Internet content unavailable in Russia. At first, the young programmer just wanted to listen to music on the Spotify streaming app in his bedroom in Nizhny Novgorod, a city roughly…